Chef Simon

Two Fridays ago Simon and I made pizza for lunch....it was a hit!!!!

Grasshopper hop

Park and Pizza Saturday

We had a very productive and fun Saturday. In the morning we went to CHS and got towel racks for the two upstairs bathrooms and looked at faucets and tubs for the basement bathroom. Then after naptime we went to a new park way south on Chicago (not too far from where we used to live) that just happened to be beside a handmade pizza place that we'd heard was both good and good with kids. It was really fun afternoon.

Checking it all out.

 Lots of pictures after the jump... including a great one of Alan and Simon at the end.

Day at the park

Easter Saturday

On the Saturday before Easter Alan, Simon and I decorated Easter Eggs. Simon was marginally interested but I was pretty excited about it. We ended up with 12 dyed, 2 died a very squished death as Simon explored what would happen when he squeezed it too hard like Mama asked him not to. And that was so fun he did it again. Alan and I got better at the signs, you can see in the video the two thumbs close together and the look of focus come over his face. 

After dying we put stickers on the eggs (see video). Then we had a long naptime with no sleeping and lots of singing to puppies and kittens. Alan then wisely suggested that Scooters would be a perfect afternoon treat to keep us moving and not grouchy. He was very right. We had a slow, relaxing walk down to Scooters - Simon touched everything we passed that Alan would let him. Then we had our ice cream and even stopped in at the library and read the first page of about one thousand books. Then we headed home and our little man passed out at bed time. It was a great Saturday.

  

Focus.

Touching Brick. Touching Glass.

Library had bins of books that were perfectly Simon Sized.

Pigs in a blanket

Climbing wall

Simon made it almost all the way up this climbing wall at the school park on his own. A few more tries and I think he'll be able to make it all the way to the top.